The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) “Making Peace With Nature” report provides a scientific blueprint for solving our planetary emergency. Amid a wave of investment to re-energize economies hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with vital decisions on climate and biodiversity protection due in 2021, the blueprint lays out the roles that everyone – from governments ... Read more
Welcome to World Environment Day in 2023, where we acknowledge one of our planet’s most pressing challenges: plastic pollution. Today, let’s take a moment to reflect on our interconnectedness with other people and the larger world, recognizing the significance of this issue and the urgent need to tackle it. Plastic production and pollution have emerged ... Read more
2022 IPCC Report Explained: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability On February 28th, 2022, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the second part of the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC on the state of the climate crisis. This report, authored by 270 authors and 195 governments, outlines the impacts of global climate change ... Read more
We can change so much in the world In the lead up to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt in November 2022, a new video series, Voices of Change, features ten interviews with some of the world’s indefatigable climate activists, looking at their courage to persist against all odds, while advocating for change ... Read more
Richard Hunsinger & Nathan Eisenberg give an in-depth analysis of the current crisis where economic breakdown, pandemic, and mass revolt collide into a historic conjuncture that will forever shape the trajectory of world events. Read more below.
Hydraulic Fracturing, or fracking, is a technique to retrieve natural gas or petroleum in which the bedrock formations are fractured by pumping high-pressure fluid into a well. It is a controversial drilling method, with proponents pointing to the high demand for energy and those opposed citing the many environmental concerns. This helpful video explains Fracking ... Read more
Calling all true-crime fans. Drilled investigates the crime of the century – the creation of climate denial. Hosted and reported by award-winning investigative journalist Amy Westervelt, Drilled is a riveting podcast about the propaganda campaign to promote climate denial. The eight part series begins by going back in time to the 1960s and 1970s, before ... Read more
Mountaintop removal is a type of surface coal mining practiced in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee in which explosives are used to expose underlying coal seams. It is an extremely destructive form of mining that is destroying the landscape of Appalachia as well as causing health hazards for the people living there. Research investigator ... Read more
100 Companies are Responsible for 71% of GHG Emissions According to the Carbon Majors Database, the most comprehensive dataset of historic company greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ever compiled, just a tiny fraction of all the companies in the world are responsible for the vast majority of GHG emissions. Of all the hundreds of thousands of ... Read more
Climate change: Where we are in seven charts? The UN has warned that the world needs to limit climate change to below 1.5C about pre-industrial levels. However, keeping to that target will require “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes” in all aspects of society. This article from the BBC helps to visualize where we are with ... Read more